Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet

"The easy mineral resources, the least expensive to extract and process, have been mostly exploited and depleted. There are plenty of minerals left to extract, but at higher costs and with increasing difficulties. The effects of depletion take different forms and one may be the economic crisis that is gripping the world system. And depletion is not the only problem. Mining has a dark side - pollution - that takes many forms and delivers many consequences, including climate change." - Chelsea Green Press